Parenting Toddlers (1-3) Support Group

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28 month old new biter

Hi, my middle daughter is suffering from what my sister and I refer to as the "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha" syndrome. Meaning, she is in the middle and is acting like a twit ha ha ha

My oldest is 4-1/2 yr and the youngest is 13 months. Within the past 2 weeks Sophie has decided that biting is the best thing in the world. She bit Chloe (the baby) today so hard on the wrist that the skin broke. Yesterday, she was on a table and not getting down, so when I pulled her off she decided that she was going to bite me. Luckily, I knew it was coming (since her head snapped towards my arm with her mouth wide open--picture a snake trying to swallow a deer) and I held her at arms distance. My H and dad said that she was trying as hard as possible to land the bite on me though. She also had anothe incident that I can't remember the details of.

They only go to day care on a rare occasion and no one else here bites. My friends daughter (14 months) is a terrible biter though and I think Sophie may be picking things up from her.

Question--what do I do to stop the biting? I don't bite her back, I have flicked her front teeth (this worked when my oldest bit, but she only bit 2 times). I am trying to give more attention to her, but I don't think it's just an attention issue. She doesn't have any pattern to the biting--meaning, she doesn't do it if a toy gets taken, if she gets yelled at, etc..

Wow thats a tough one. My oldest used to be a biter but i used to bite her back and that stopped her in her tracks quick smart.

There are alot of mothers out there though that don't believe in biting back which is fair enough I mean it makes sence - wrong plus wrong don't equal a right.

Have you tried maybe something yuck to stick in her mouth when she bites someones?

Kids will pick up bad habbits from other children because they see that child recieving attention from doing something bad (be it good or bad attention a child will do anything for it - i learnt that from my 5 year old).

Good luck with trying to stop her from biting and I know where your coming from with the 'Marsha marsha marsha' my middle child is the same, lol.

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